The results of the recent poll taken by Catholic Web Solutions indicate that CWS followers, like the general social media population, use Facebook and YouTube the most. I have written about Facebook before, so let’s talk about video and YouTube today.
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Six Reasons to Poll Your Readers
Writing a blog is a commitment. For some writers, finding new material to write about and post is easy, but for many of us—it can be a challenge. Another challenge is that readers over time can become complacent and just take in the weekly/daily posts and not really engage with them. They don’t comment or respond. Good comments encourage bloggers and are interesting to other readers. What can a blogger…
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Creating Internet Buzz for Vocations
Sunday, May 15, 2011, was the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. I clicked around the Internet to see how much “buzz” was being created on websites, the “blogosphere” and the “Twitterverse.” What I found was interesting.
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Our First Live Streaming Video Event
On Sunday, May 1, I hosted the first live streaming video coverage of an event at our Provincial Center in Chardon, Ohio. I did my part from my home in Maryland! Over two-hundred sisters were on-site for the four-hour meeting and through the wonders of technology—another 35 sisters at 25 other sites were able to follow the meeting live and submit questions to the presenters in real time.Thankfully, the webcast…
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Catholic Bloggers Meet in Rome-May 2, 2011
Sad, but true—I am not one of the 150 Catholic bloggers gathering in Rome today at the invitation of the Pontifical Councils on Culture and Social Communications. But I was one of the 750 Catholic bloggers worldwide who requested an invitation. It was fun to dream and I am pleased to say that I am familiar with a few of the people who were invited.
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Leveraging the Internet for Mission, Part V: Partners
The Internet is no place to travel alone. Once we start using the Internet and social media for mission—we start forming partnerships. These partnerships are especially helpful to people who are not-techy but want to use technology for what they are good at: mission. We need good partners and we want to be a good partner as well.